Forum Business Travel signs a collaboration agreement with Madrid Tourism Cluster Network

Forum Business Travel and the Madrid Tourism Cluster Network have signed an agreement to jointly organize events and activities to generate knowledge in the meetings tourism sector. The first fruit of this collaboration will take place next month, with a session dedicated to technology in travel.

 

The alliance is a boost to the diffusion and the exchange of experiences related to the good management of business travel at a time when companies need optimize the costs of their trips, which are becoming more and more numerous, given the general increase in exports, motivated in turn by the atonement of the domestic market.

The first event of the collaboration agreement will be a training session dedicated to technology and innovation in business travel with presentations, round tables and a panel of experts that will take place next month. FBT and the Tourism Cluster are already working on the activities for 2013.

Según Óscar García, founding partner of Forum Business Travel, “collaboration with the Madrid Network Tourism Cluster provides a great opportunity to take advantage of a very dynamic network within the Community of Madrid;The collaboration with the Madrid Network Tourism Cluster provides a great opportunity to take advantage of a very dynamic network within the Community of Madrid and with a novel business model to disseminate best practices and bring knowledge to a sector in which there are not many training opportunities.

For Isabel López Briones, managing director of the Madrid Network Tourism Cluster, “the experience of Forum Business Travel in the field of training is a value that could be added to the company;The experience of Forum Business Travel in the field of training is a value that companies could benefit from when planning and managing their travel policy, a fundamental element in the generation of business, inside and outside our borders”.